Beauty Quotes - Page 33

• An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

  Austin O'Malley

  Quality, Essentials, Aloofness

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• Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.366

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• Beauty is objectified pleasure.

  George Santayana

  Pleasure

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• After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

  Timothy Leary

  Rest Of Your Life, Wonder, Revelations

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.83, Ronin Publishing

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• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cutting, Men, Pollution Control

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

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• Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Found, Worthy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

  Unknown

  I Love You, Thanksgiving, Love You

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• Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Men, Giving

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• The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Flowering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sun, Too Much

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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• Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Shows, Seems

  'An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' l. 90

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• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Doors, Age, Use

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• Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

  Ovid

  Modesty, Strife

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• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Years, Frail, Draws

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• To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

  John Dryden

  Hands, Masters, Shows

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.207

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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Flattery, Gross, Objects

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Owners, Wit

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• Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "Isn’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"

  Alice Freeman Palmer

  Beautiful, Long, Enough

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• All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Use, Posse, Fees

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.448

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

  Izaak Walton

  Beautiful, Pleasure, Solomon

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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• Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

  Homer

  Faces, Enchanting, Dear

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.379

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• The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Matter, Subjective

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• It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.

  Herbert Spencer

  Perfection, May, Causes

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• Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Flower, Soul

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